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It's because Venmo is owned by PayPal

The AI part of this is a red herring. This is above all a big devops failure. Three takeaways: 1. TEST YOUR BACKUPS. If you have not confirmed that you can restore, then you don’t …

> You don't want to fine, jail or otherwise ruin the lives of thousands of kids to get them to stop. > You just want them to stop spraypainting shit. https://i.imgur.com/qaFgSm7.pn…

The article is completely self-defeating and unintentionally funny. "Look at this remarkably fugly downgrade. Here's why The Science says it's superior."

> If my account tries to send someone $3 million, I'd prefer that it's intermediated by a confused bank employee staring at a screen This is a nice lens for looking at when stablec…

> Once again - this is a feature not a bug Are you really "once again"ing Patrick Collison on the issue of how payments work ?

Many skeptics assume that stablecoins are just about regulatory arbitrage. That's part of it, but: 1. Progress often depends on evolving obsolete regulation. Uber works much better…

> The problem with all that, is the fact it remains possible to create a protocol with N big institutions [...] This maintains many benefits of the blockchain and lacks many issues…

WhatsApp is end-to-end-to-server encryption. They have a nicely implemented E2E protocol. This is operationally convenient: Meta can accurately say that they don't store WhatsApp m…

I bet this correlation goes away if you separate the data by ethnicity.

The EFF said it best: > Just because there’s a serious problem doesn’t mean that every response is a good one Problem: a forum full of misanthropes dedicated to saying the worst th…

And speaking of user-hostile, locked-down phones... a galactic irony that Ben Wiser, the Googler who posted this proposal, has a blog where his most recent post is a rant about how…

One simple reason - separate from the less fun possibilities involving defense procurement politics - is that the F117 was a transition technology. It proved that super low radar s…

It's an exceptionally flexible and convenient method of control. Earlier this year, donors to the truck convey protest in Canada had their bank accounts frozen. This wasn't a targe…

One of the things I love about Palladium (and closely related, Samo Burja's newsletter) is the depth of research. Like the detail that one of the most egregious episodes from Calif…

Speaking of blaming the author. This post is a fantastic example of the poverty trap. We design laws that, on paper, help the poor; and then we blame them for not taking advantage.…

I skipped Aramco on purpose. It's a vanity valuation. The true top five each created valuables businesses based on 0-to-1 products. Aramco didn't create much, certainly nothing wor…

Political debate on HN has become unavoidable because tech itself has been politicized. Of course on some level it always was, "everything is political" etc, but a decade ago most …

FWIW this is the same argument once made against human flight. In the late 19th century, there were a lot of debates in the form > Clearly flight is possible, birds do it > Sure bu…

After how this one went, it seems very unlikely they'd try again unless Ukraine was somehow disarmed first. (Disarmament was one of the Russian asks during yesterday's negotiations…